chapter 71

Ai slept in a daze until midnight. She suddenly felt that there was something wriggling next to her. She was quite sensitive, so as long as there was anybody coming towards her, she would be startled. What’s more, it was midnight.

Her first thought was that the hotel was run by criminals. They would take liberties with her!

So she immediately screamed, “Help!”

But her mouth was covered with a hand before she finished the whole sentence. She didn’t know who it was because it was too dark. She was so frightened that her body was stiff.

She tried to struggle with all her might, but she thought that she was finished this time. She couldn’t help cursing at Lu. ‘What kind of hellish place did he choose? It’s not safe at all!’

“NO! I have to get myself out of danger.”

She quickly scratched the guy’s face hard. It wouldn’t cause severe injury, but the skin tissue was left in her nails. If she was killed, it would be a clue for the police. She wouldn’t die for nothing!

Lu was speechless. He had already made his moves as quiet as possible. It was even quiet enough for him to sneak into enemy camp. But he was still noticed by Ai, and she started to scream without hesitation.

If somebody came in and saw that they fought on the bed, they would be too embarrassed to be in public tomorrow.

Lu covered her mouth with his hand when he thought about it. But he didn’t expect that it provoked her survival instincts, and she fought back by scratching his face.

Lu couldn’t help shouting out, “Changhuan. Don’t be scared. It’s me.”

“Huh?” The voice sounded really like that bastard .

Ai stopped scratching and turned on the bed lamp, staggering. The man was Lu.

She grew even angrier and kicked him. “Why did you come in? Do you want me to get a heart attack?”

Lu grabbed her ankle in his hands. He didn’t refute her because he knew he had no grounds to refute. “Changhuan, you must have misunderstood. I really felt bad. I couldn’t sleep…”

Ai hit him with a pillow when she saw him grabbing her ankle. “Go find you dear Ouyang and talk about literature and philosophy under the moon and stars in the beautiful night. Ah, I almost forgot. She loves listening to your heroic deeds. You can tell her more.”

Lu’s expression immediately grew terrible. “I have nothing to do with her. Don’t link us together.”

“If there is nothing between you two, how could you hug each other naked? Do you think I am stupid? Do you think I’m still a teenage girl?” Hearing his explanation, Ai gave a snort of contempt. “Let go of my ankle or I will beat you.”

Lu had no choice but to let go of her. He was not afraid of being beaten, but he was afraid he would hurt Ai if she beat him, and he would be the one who felt sorry in the end.

He would have to kneel down on the bed to make his apology sincere enough so that Ai would let him sleep on the bed tonight.

It was really bitter sweet.

“Changhuan, I already know that I did something wrong!” Lu Zhanke felt that he did nothing wrong though, but he had to compromise when he was helpless.

Ai immediately raised her eyebrow when she heard it. “What? You think you are wrong? Do you really have something with Ouyang…”

“No. No. No. I shouldn’t have stayed alone, taken the bait of Ouyang Zhenzhen, and gotten pestered by her. You had a misunderstanding. I should have called you at once when I found her instead of handling it by myself.”

“Humph. Tell me, why didn’t you call me?” What he said was rather satisfactory. Ai didn’t give an intense reaction, and she instead started to listen to his explanation.

Lu glanced at her expression and mumbled, “My phone was dead.”

“Dead? So you are telling me her phone was the same too?” Ai never believed that there could be such a coincidence in the world. They went into a dark forest by coincidence, hugged each other without being properly dressed, and then their phones were both dead.

Who would believe it?

“Her phone was not dead, but she dropped it into water. So it was ‘dead’ too.” Remembering it now, Lu felt that it was a really unconvincing excuse. But this was what Ouyang Zhenzhen had told him, and he didn’t doubt it.

Perhaps he didn’t expect Ouyang Zhenzhen and Du Yucheng to frame him.

He learned an unforgettable lesson from this terrible experience. That was: Your friends are unreliable. Women are even more unreliable.

“Humph…” Ai sneered. “Did you two share your statements? You are dead if there is any difference between your statements.”

“…” Lu was speechless. He had done numerous interrogations, but he didn’t expect that he would be interrogated one day. Now he felt it was impossible to clear his name.

“Give me your phone.” Ai said suddenly.

“….” Lu didn’t ask why but handed it to Ai hurriedly, as if he were currying favor with Ai. “I charged my phone just now. Use it if you want.”

He had already locked the important information in his phone with a special encryption scheme. In any case, it would not be leaked.

Ai raised her eyebrows and started to search through his contacts. They were all numbers blocked by asterisks. She didn’t open them one by one and searched Ouyang Zhenzhen directly.

“Huh? He doesn’t have it? He didn’t save her number?”

Seeing this, Ai was a little pleased.

But, the test didn’t end there.

She took out her own phone and found Ouyang Zhenzhen’s number. Then, she called the number with Lu’s phone.

“You said her phone was broken. Let’s try. If I can’t call through, I will believe you. If I call through, you know the consequence.”

Lu suddenly broke out in cold sweat when he saw Ai’s expression. Ouyang Zhenzhen had really pushed him into a trap.

They both held their breath and waited to see if the call could get through.

After three seconds, there came “beep” from the phone. Ai glared at Lu immediately. ‘This is what you call broken?’

Lu knew Ouyang had framed him. He anxiously tried to get his phone back. “I can explain. I really don’t know what happened. Believe me, Changhuan! ”

Ouyang Zhenzhen’s voice came from the other side before Ai Changhuan talked. “Lu, is that you?”

Ai was pissed. She grabbed the phone and shouted, “This is Lu’s wife!”

And then she threw the phone at Lu with a bang.

Lu caught it instinctively, and then he smashed it on the ground when he saw Ai’s glaring eyes. “Honey, I can explain.”

“Go to hell!” Ai pinched Lu hard.

“Changhuan. Ahhh!”

The phone was broken into pieces while Lu screamed in pain.

Looking at the “corpse ” of his phone, Lu was sad. “Changhuan….You don’t believe me at all? Do you think I would fall in love with Ouyang Zhenzhen?”

“Why should I believe you? You two hugged each other like this?” Ai glared at him. Ouyang Zhenzhen wasn’t ugly. They were dressed like that. She didn’t believe Lu would be a gentleman.

“But you hugged Du Yucheng, and I believed you two were innocent.” Lu couldn’t help refuting her. He was jealous, but he believed Ai Changhuan and Du Yucheng didn’t do anything improper because he trusted Ai’s morality. He was often beaten by her if he wanted to kiss or touch her as her husband. Du Yucheng was just a nobody.

“Go away!” Ai was irritated and turned her back to Lu.

“Changhuan, trust me. I have nothing with her. I swear. I don’t have any feelings for Ouyang Zhenzhen.” Lu followed her in a hurry and begged her, kneeling. The ceiling was so low that if he straightened up his body, his head would touch the ceiling.

“Save it. If you didn’t give any hints to Ouyang, would she be so active?”Ai didn’t believe him at all. Lu’s explanation wasn’t the least bit persuasive.

“OK. It’s my fault. I should have pushed her away from the very beginning. I shouldn’t have let her misunderstand how I thought about her. But I really have no feelings for her. This is all a misunderstanding.” Lu kept explaining. His mouth almost dried up from talking too much.

“So what? You hugged her anyway.” Ai tilted her head and glared at Lu.

“Ai Changhuan, you can be jealous, but don’t cross the line. If you do, you would only be making trouble.” Since he couldn’t coax her, Lu could only go the hard way. He finally started to act like a tough man. How could he let his wife dominate him? He had to take control of her!

“I am not jealous. Why would I be jealous? Don’t think too much.” Ai rolled her eyes.

“If you are not jealous because of me, who are you jealous for? Du Yucheng?” Lu got angry.

“Why are you mentioning him? This is about you and me.”Ai was pissed.

“Why can’t I? You keep mentioning Ouyang Zhenzhen,” Lu refuted.

Ai’s expression became terrible. “See, you care for her so much.”

Lu straightened up. “No.”

Ai turned around to face him, saying angrily, “Why did you shout at me if you didn’t care for her?”

“I didn’t shout at you.” Lu couldn’t help raising his voice.

“You didn’t? What are you doing right now? You said you had no feelings for her. You are shouting at me for her!” Ai felt heartbroken.

Lu had shouted at her because of Ouyang Zhenzhen. It seemed like she couldn’t compete with Ouyang Zhenzhen in Lu’s heart. She hated him.

“…” Lu gave up on the woman’s weird logic, outstanding imagination, and eloquence while arguing. At this time, he’d better compromise.

“Alright. It’s my fault. You can punish me if you want, as long as you can forgive me. OK?” Lu stopped being tough. He had to take complete responsibility. He hoped Ai could forgive him because of his sincere attitude and end this argument as soon as possible.

“Go out. I don’t want to see you.” Ai’s expression was cool.

Lu could do nothing with her. After quarreling for a while, they hadn’t resolved any problems. On the contrary, Ai was even more angry than before.

At this time, Lu could only give up his pride. He threw himself on Ai and pushed her down. “No. You are my wife. I just want to be with you.”